Erdmann Encke (26 January 1843 – 7 July 1896) was a German sculptor.

Biography

Encke was born in

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. He studied at the academy in Berlin and with Albert Wolff. Several of the finest pieces of statuary in Berlin were designed by him, among them the following: “Friedrich Ludwig Jahn,” bronze statue (Hasenheide, Berlin); “Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg” (Façade of Town Hall, Berlin); “Queen Louise of Prussia” ( Thiergarten, Berlin); and the sarcophagi of Emperor

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and Empress Augusta in the mausoleum at

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. He also executed a number of important bronze portrait busts, in which he used

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with success. He was appointed a professor of the Berlin Academy in 1883. He died, aged 53, at

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1843 births 1896 deaths German sculptors German male sculptors Prussian Academy of Arts alumni 19th-century sculptors {{Germany-sculptor-stub